Genu
American - born Romanian
In painting, installation, land art and sculpture Genu reflects on ideas like Grand Design Purpose and Fractality, Magnetic Interaction under Field Awareness, Space-Time-Conscience relations, Inception and Transformation of Amorphous into Sign and vice versa, Embodiment and Substantiality of words into form and matter, Perishable States of Matter and Mind in the context of Life synergy and entropy, Long Life Formulas and Universal Artifacts, Architectural nesting of the Ego. His crossdomain educational backgrounds are of strong influence when it comes to designing structures and spaces embedded with Value Inheritance and Geometric Golden Mean principles, using artistic and architectural means and processes.
With Bachelors in Math and Architecture from the University of Bucharest, Genu (Eugen) Berlo continued his education in Fine Arts at Fashion Institute of Technology of NYC. He worked as an architect for some of the New York City’s most eminent architectural firms, including world’s highly renowned Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM) architectural, planning and engineering company.
Land Life Lines
Editions: 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
The ongoing project series consists of finding Earth life lines and spots, and building structures to mark harmony with nature and raise consciousness about egocentric, artificial and eccentric use of human inhabited land.
The medium is local available materials. I look into a few critical characteristics of the object, like relative scale and distance to the surrounding elements, easy path and flow of energy currents, to be or not to be iconic mega super egocentric real need at a psychological dimension, color, light, material harmony and contrast, etc…
Kiseleff Park Bucuresti 2014
From the Land Life Lines series project
Herastrau Park Bucuresti 2014
From the Land Life Lines series project
Untitled Perishable Lightning Rod
Genu - 2016
Ghirdoveni Art Installation
Ludic and Oneiric interpretation of a high raise inhabited building. I imagine here the mix of fear and excitement. Fear of structural soundness against the joy and excitement of inhabiting an architectural skyscraper. Thus, I call this mixed feeling “Untitled Perishable Lightning Rod”, this being one of my artistic studies about Space-Time-Conscience relations and Perishable States of Matter and Mind in the context of Life synergy.
Magnetic Jazz Painting by Genu Berlo 2016
Ghirdoveni 2015
A study of the very short and volatile manifest nature of smoke and plasma fire sparked by the direct action and awareness of the artist, and sustained by the presence of the universal field Conscience and Earth Ley Lines. The field of mind determining the shape and dynamics of smoke and fire and amplified by the direct placement on a ley line.
From the Land Life Lines project series
Ii Românești - Ia Românească